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National Restaurant Association Framework Aims To Close Gap Between Restaurants And Aggregators

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16), the National Restaurant Association offered up seven public policy tenets that – in collaboration with delivery aggregators – are being billed as a “framework” for the delivery industry. That roster includes Washington State, New Jersey, Chicago and New York City. With data sharing, to boot.

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Is Sales Tax An Anchor On Amazon?

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One of the more long-grumbled complaints in retail is that Amazon and other eCommerce players are able to exploit a loophole that allowed them to mostly avoid charging sales tax. Would collecting sales tax 100 percent of the time take a bit out of Amazon’s bottom line? Recent data suggests — probably not.

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Widening Borrower Protection’s Scope To SMBs

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When it comes time to apply for financing, he said, it’s often because there’s an emergency – they must make payroll or find cash for an upcoming tax bill, for instance. At this point, these business owners will flock to the most convenient and visible option, which is increasingly becoming digital alternative lending platforms.

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Guest Post: 2012 Economic Year in Review by Dorothy Jaworski

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Housing markets have begun to improve with the national indices showing year-over-year growth of 3% to 4% recently. Superstorm Sandy battered the coasts of New Jersey and New York with devastating results. The tax bracket changes become permanent and that will allow planning to resume. Oh, wait, our Congress!

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Food Stamps Online: The $75B Grocery Game-Changer?

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Low-income consumers are far more likely to find it difficult to secure mainstream credit sources and are thus much more likely to make use of high-cost alternative credit sources when financial emergencies hit, often in the form of a payday, title, tax refund anticipation or installment loan. And that’s just accessing money itself.

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Banking's Top 5 in Total Return to Shareholders: 2017 Edition

Jeff For Banks

The Bank, Old Second National Bank, lost a whopping $156 million in 2009 and 2010. Independent Bank Corporation (Nasdaq: IBCP) Independent Bank dates back to 1864 as the First National Bank of Iona. Actually, the Bank had a one-time after tax litigation settlement (from a 2002-04 event) of $6.2 How did they lose it?

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Malls, Restaurants Request Aid As Coronavirus Forces Closures

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The National Restaurant Association (NRA) is forecasting a drop in sales of $225 billion over the next three months due to the outbreak. In New Jersey’s Bergen County, all malls were told to close. The NRA asked for a $145 billion recovery fund from the Treasury Department for the restaurant and foodservice industry.